Corruption is a crime that may destroyed a democratic institutions and undermine
the legal order, damaging public confidence and hinder the development of the
country. Corruption is also very detrimental to the finances and the economy.
Corruption is classified as an extraordinary crime and requires the extraordinary
handling as well. Prosecutors are law enforcement officers who served as a court
for a crime and as an investigator, and prosecutor as government's lawyer for the
specific crime as well. This thesis focuses about how the implementation and the
authority of the prosecutor as an investigator and what the prosecutor's effort in
the returning of the assets from the corruption. The general process of criminal
investigators have been performing their duties as contained in article 7 of the
Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) in the execution of investigation. In
mechanisms of the process to return on assets from corruption that have been
made by prosecutors is carrying out the determination of judges and court
decisions that have permanent legal force as accordance with the law number of
16 year 2004 article 30 paragraph (1) and point b.